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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients jcea, mark.dickinson, terry.reedy
Date 2013-02-09.11:12:19
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There's already a fairly well known 3rd-party library for this:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bitarray/

I'd be -1 on putting something like this in the standard library:  the array module doesn't get enough maintenance as it is, and a packed bit array sounds like a specialist need.
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